Quiz Bowl Resources
Question Packet Archives
- Collegiate Quiz Bowl Packet Archive: This packet archive features a selection of notable academic tournament sets. However, it contains no trash tournaments. Its ACF selection is larger than that on the official ACF Web site.
- High School Quiz Bowl Packet Archive: This packet archive contains several high school and novice collegiate tournament sets, including PACE National Scholastics Championship sets.
- Stanford Packet Archive: The largest quiz bowl packet archive on the Internet, it contains many academic and trash tournament sets at both collegiate and high school levels.
Writing Questions
- Jerry Vinokurov's Guide to Writing Questions: In response to a poorly written tournament held in April 2007, Jerry Vinokurov created a guide explaining how to write questions. He provides suggestions for locating sources and selecting topics for the questions, and his discourse on writing questions treats material for tossups and bonuses, the style in which to write the questions, usefulness of clues, and what to avoid.
- Subash Maddipoti's Ten Tips on Writing Questions: A precursor to Jerry Vinokurov's guide, this document provides suggestions for avoiding certain mistakes in question writing.
- ACF Formatting Requirements: Developed by Jerry Vinokurov, this document is a guide to formatting question packets. He encourages all modified ACF tournaments to use this format to promote a standard appearance across tournaments.
- ACF Regionals 2008 Packet Guidelines: Promulgated by Matt Weiner, these guidelines delineate the contents of an ACF packet. They are a synthesis of Jerry's question writing and formatting documents with Matt's suggestions. Although the guidelines are specifically for ACF Regionals 2008, they contain many good principles that apply to all ACF and modified ACF tournaments.
Running Tournaments
